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Due to the unfortunate events that have transpired here in Boston, a lock down has been put into effect until further notice causing the Hynes Convention Center to suspend all events. As such, The Boston Comic Con will be rescheduled to a date in the not too distant future. All people who purchased advanced tickets on line will have their tickets honored at the rescheduled show. If for some reason, you can not come to the show on that date, we will refund your ticket.

Please, we ask for your patience, understanding, and cooperation. We appreciate your loyalty, and continued support for the Boston Comic Con. Unfortunately, this situation is beyond our control.

When asked what angle we should take when reporting this, the entire writing staff of The Outhouse decided that the forum posters would do a much better job turning this into an offensive stupid conversation about censorship, empathy, Obama, or whatnot and decided to just let this be.

Aren't the police advising people in Boston should stay where they're at right now? If the guy is still at large and transportation affected, wouldn't that naturally impact people's determination to go buy comic books?

Victorian Squid wrote:Aren't the police advising people in Boston should stay where they're at right now? If the guy is still at large and transportation affected, wouldn't that naturally impact people's determination to go buy comic books?

It should. I'm interpreting this like it's not that they're afraid that someone may bomb the ComiCon, it's that the bomber-maniac is on the loose somewhere in the city. Allowing thousands of bystanders in and out of the city would only further hamper Law Enforcement actions not to mention possibly placing all these new bystanders in harms way should the bomber decide to hide in a large crowd.

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IvCNuB4 wrote:It should. I'm interpreting this like it's not that they're afraid that someone may bomb the ComiCon, it's that the bomber-maniac is on the loose somewhere in the city. Allowing thousands of bystanders into the city would only further hamper Law Enforcement actions not to mention possibly placing all these new bystanders in harms way should the bomber decide to hide in a large crowd.

Sure. Well, I guess Lowell's far enough away. The news makes it sound like the whole city of Boston is locked down until they catch/kill the guy.